Routine Treatment

Health Management

This Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Corporate Plan 2017–18 to 2020–21 highlights the achievements planned to occur during the 2017–18 year that will help to provide Australians with quality, nationally-consistent health and welfare information. It describes our purposes, practices and capabilities and sets out the ways that Australians can assess our performance.

This report provides an overview of national-level, state and territory findings, as well as comparisons across public housing, state owned and managed Indigenous housing and community housing tenants. The report shows that the majority of tenants are satisfied with the services provided by their housing organisation, with community housing tenants the most satisfied. Tenants report a range of benefits from living in social housing and the majority live in dwellings of an acceptable standard.

This report publishes data on 60,600 courses of radiotherapy that were delivered in Australia in 2015–16. For non-emergency treatment, 50% of patients started treatment within 9 days, and 90% within 27 days. For those who needed emergency treatment, 91% began treatment within the emergency timeframe. Data were submitted from 44 public-sector sites and 33 private-sector sites, covering effectively 100% of courses delivered in Australia.

This fact sheet summarises the supervision histories (all available information on prior youth justice supervision) of young people who were under youth justice supervision during 2015–16. About 9 in 10 had been under community-based supervision either during 2015–16 or in a previous year, and about 6 in 10 had spent time in detention.

This fact sheet summarises information on the number of supervised orders administered by state and territory youth justice agencies, and the periods of supervision experienced by young people were under supervision in 2015–16. In 2015–16, almost 10,600 young people were under youth justice supervision under almost 55,000 orders, an average of about 5 orders per person. These young people served almost 14,000 periods of supervision, an average of about 1.3 periods per person.